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  Toxemia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Toxemia is another term for blood poisoning, or the presence in the bloodstream of quantities of bacteria or bacterial toxins sufficient to cause serious illness.
Toxemia of pregnancy is an old-fashioned and technically incorrect term for pre-eclampsia.
Autointoxication, or Intestinal Toxemia by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, M.D. This foundational research into the role of intestinal flroa in disease and research into changing of the intestinal flora, will help anyone learn how to reverse the aging process, live a longer and healthier life, have greater endurance and be more mentally alert.
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 What is toxemia?
Mild Toxemia is monitored closely and usually causes very little problems for the mother or child.
Toxemia starts to develop as your placenta begins to develop, although it may not be detected until the later part of your pregnancy.
Toxemia is not something to mess around with.
ncnc.essortment.com /whatistoxemi_ruyd.htm   (1099 words)

  
 Toxemia
Toxemia is a polluted condition of the body's milieu interieur, due to impurities in the bloodstream derived from improperly constituted food and to a lesser extent from other sources.
Because there are countless variations in the nature and degree of toxemia, there are countless variations in symptoms, which accounts for why there are so many diseases doctors must try to remember the names of in their mistaken belief that each symptom represents a different disease.
The most poisonous form of toxemia, however, originates in the colon (large bowel) because of constipation, which on the Western diet is unavoidable due to a lack of dietary fiber.
angus.bob11.co.uk /diets/Toxemia.html   (3620 words)

  
 Pregnancy-Induced High Blood Pressure, Toxemia
This disease is seen in approximately 3 to 5 percent of pregnancies, usually noted in the third trimester and consists of a triad of hypertension, proteinuria (protein in urine) and edema (swollen extremities).
It is the elevated blood pressure in toxemia of pregnancy, which is known to cause vascular damage particularly to the arterial circulation.
Toxemia is harmful to both mother and baby and the only known cure for toxemia is delivery of the unborn child.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/maternal_fetal/101454   (391 words)

  
 Gestational Toxemia in Sheep   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Gestational toxemia is a metabolic disorder characterized by hypoglycemia and hyperketonemia as a result of the incapacity of the animal to maintain an adequate energy balance.
Thus, the biochemical explanation for gestational toxemia centers on deficient performance of the tricarboxylic acid cycle as a result of inadequate supplies of oxalacetate derived from glucose or certain gluconeogenic substances (propionate, glycerol, various amino acids).
The irreversible phase of gestational toxemia is a consequence of hypoglycemic encephalopathy with neuronal metabolic depression — thus again confirming the importance of hypoglycemia as a key factor in the disorder.
www.goatconnection.com /articles/publish/article_167.shtml   (3352 words)

  
 Pregnancy Toxemia in Ewes and Does
Pregnancy toxemia is a metabolic disorder caused by low glucose concentrations in the blood and excessive breakdown of body fat to compensate.
Inadequate nutrition during the last one-third of pregnancy is the primary cause of low blood sugar/pregnancy toxemia, as ewes cannot consume enough feed (energy) to meet the demands of their growing fetus(es).
The symptoms of pregnancy toxemia are vague and can be similar to other diseases, especially hypocalcemia or milk fever.
www.sheepandgoat.com /articles/pregtox.html   (736 words)

  
 Blue Ribbon Baby - Prevent Preeclampsia, Toxemia, HELLP, etc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Toxemia subsided in women placed on a 260-gram protein, well-balanced diet, with injections of vitamin B. Dodge, E., and Frost, T. "Relation between blood plasma proteins and toxemias of pregnancy." JAMA 111:1398, 1938.
Toxemia was found to be closely associated with inadequate nutrition.
Among 2000 pregnant women, those put on a "low-sodium diet" experimentally had over twice the incidence of toxemia and significantly higher perinatal mortality than those told to "eat more salt." This study should not have been done because it was unphysiological and needlessly harmed many mothers and babies.
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 JustEves.com - Toxemia of Pregnancy
Toxemia during one pregnancy does not mean it will recur with subsequent pregnancies.
If diagnosed and treated throughout pregnancy, toxemia usually disappears without complications within 7 days after delivery.
If toxemia causes premature labor, the newborn's survival chances depend on its maturity.
www.justeves.com /ipl/toxemia_of_pregnancy.shtml   (209 words)

  
 TILDEN: Toxemia Explained; Enervation is General   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
(Toxemia explains this phenomena.--Ed.) Hence, as a constitution modified by vaccination is not made more able to resist perturbing influences in general, it must be made less able.
Unless patients of this character are put to bed and fasted until elimination is completed, then fed properly, and taught how to eat within their limitations, and unless they are willing to give up all enervating habits, there is no hope of their ever getting well.
Nature's order is interfered with by enervating habits until Toxemia is established; then a vaccination, or an infection from any source, acts sooner or later as a firebrand in causing the most vulnerable organ to take on organic change.
www.soilandhealth.org /02/0201hyglibcat/020103toxemia/02010305.html   (2049 words)

  
 Toxemia and Alkalosis Treatment with Hydrochloric acid--1935
In the understanding and treatment of the progressive degenerative diseases, much depends upon a practical knowledge of the cause of acidosis and toxemia, and of the condition known as alkalosis.
The writer hopes to show that acidosis and toxemia are, in reality, synonymous, and that underlying the varied symptoms of these diseased conditions there is, in reality, a basic alkalescence of the cellular tissues.
That the acid-alkali balance or pH in the colloidal tissues is the base of all the phenomena or disease symptoms which are termed acidosis, alkalescence or toxemia is readily understood.
www.psychresearch.com /toxemia_and_alkalosis.html   (1960 words)

  
 Toxemia - Holistic Health
Toxemia occurs in pregnant women and includes swelling, high blood pressure and protein in the urine (proteinuria).
Toxemia is a leading cause of premature infants and pregnancy disability.
This could be another factor in toxemia according to several studies.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art24833.asp   (564 words)

  
 Toxemia in Pregnancy - Pregnancy
Toxemia in pregnancy (also referred to as eclampsia) can have serious consequences.
Toxemia develops slowly and seldom occurs before the 20th week of pregnancy.
If toxemia does develop, hospital bed rest, sedation and monitoring of blood pressure and kidney function may be prescribed.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art17091.asp   (308 words)

  
 The Risks of Repeat Toxemia
My husband and I are worried about getting pregnant again and the chances of toxemia recurring.
A: Despite the fact that prenatal care was started 70, or so, years ago to prevent mothers from dying of toxemia, it remains one of the leading reasons for maternal illness and death in the world.
Toxemia, also known as pre-eclampsia, is diagnosed in about 7 percent of all pregnancies.
www.webmd.com /content/pages/3/3608_858.htm   (569 words)

  
 Role of nutrition in the prevention of toxemia -- Maine 72 (1): 298 -- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Toxemia of pregnancy is called the disease of theories because,
role in toxemia is that mortality from toxemia in England and
of pregnancy (mainly toxemia), 12% and 18%, respectively (15).
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 Causes of Toxemia - CureResearch.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Toxemia as a complication: Other conditions that might have Toxemia as a complication might be potential underlying causes of Toxemia.
Toxemia as a symptom: Conditions listing Toxemia as a symptom may also be potential underlying causes of Toxemia.
Related information for causes of Toxemia: Further relevant information on causes of Toxemia may be found in the risk factors for Toxemia and underlying causes of Toxemia.
www.cureresearch.com /t/toxemia/causes_printer.htm   (217 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for toxemia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
toxemia TOXEMIA [toxemia], disease state caused by the presence in the blood of bacterial toxins or other harmful substances.
The effects of the bacterial toxins known as endotoxins are relatively uniform, regardless of which bacterial species the toxin comes from, and are separate from the effects caused
Toxemia of pregnancy occurs in 10% to 20% of pregnant women; symptoms include headache, vertigo, visual disturbances, vomiting, hypertension, and edema.
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/12996.html   (431 words)

  
 Pregnancy Toxemia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Pregnancy toxemia is caused by the sudden extra demand for energy by the fast-growing kids or lambs in the last few weeks of pregnancy.
At the time when the kids or lambs are growing very rapidly, increasing amounts of space and energy are needed, in addition to the protein and energy needed for maintenance of the doe or ewe.
Pregnancy toxemia is not a transmittable disease from one doe or ewe to another, however, flocks or herds experiencing the disease may appear to be infectious because the plane of nutrition and management throughout pregnancy is similar.
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 TILDEN: Toxemia Explained; Poise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Toxemia is the only explanation of why so many young men were refused by the examining boards during the late war.
Their sicknesses were given names, but the truth was that they had Toxemia, and their diseases were crises of Toxemia, which means vicarious elimination.
Those who have least resistance (are most enervated and toxemic) suffer most and succumb the easiest; for the poisoning brings on a crisis of Toxemia, and the two nerve-destroying influences overwhelm the reduced resistance, and may end in death unless wisely treated.
www.soilandhealth.org /02/0201hyglibcat/020103toxemia/02010306.html   (4681 words)

  
 toxemia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Exotoxins are proteins released by bacteria that have specific effects on target tissues, e.g., botulinus toxin affects the nervous system.
The term toxemia is also used for a disorder occurring during the latter half of pregnancy characterized by high blood pressure, the appearance of protein in the urine, and edema.
The cause of toxemia of pregnancy has not been established with certainty.
www.bartleby.com /65/to/toxemia.html   (214 words)

  
 Causes of Toxemia - WrongDiagnosis.com
Other conditions that might have Toxemia as a complication may, potentially, be an underlying cause of Toxemia.
Conditions listing Toxemia as a symptom may also be potential underlying causes of Toxemia.
Further relevant information on causes of Toxemia may be found in the risk factors for Toxemia, medications that may cause Toxemia, contagiousness for Toxemia, genetics of Toxemia, and underlying causes of Toxemia.
www.wrongdiagnosis.com /t/toxemia/causes.htm   (254 words)

  
 Toxemia Information on Healthline
Toxemia is the presence of abnormal substances in the blood, but the term is also used in reference to a condition in pregnancy also known as preeclampsia.
This refers to pregnancy-induced hypertension (high blood pressure) and any possible accompanying symptoms, such as quick or sudden weight gain, water retention, and excessive swelling of the feet, hands, and face.
When monitoring a female with toxemia, the blood pressure and urine protein are checked often and bed rest may be prescribed.
www.healthline.com /galecontent/toxemia   (357 words)

  
 The Wolfe Clinic Newsletter - ALIMENTARY TOXEMIA, THE HIDDEN POISONS YOU DIGEST
The following is reprinted from "Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management", Excondado, CA Alimentary toxemia refers to the body’s absorption of toxic, poisonous substances through the mechanical and chemical process of digestion.
It is not claimed that alimentary toxemia is the single cause of the symptoms and diseases mentioned.
American, German and French physicians whose names might be added - it is no longer possible to ignore the importance of alimentary toxemia or autointoxication as a fact in the production of disease.
www.thewolfeclinic.com /newsletter/newsletter0207.html   (1863 words)

  
 E-News 1:38 - Toxemia
At the eighth month of gestation, 15 of the 20 non-convulsive toxemic women were placed on a diet which consisted of 260 grams of protein and were given vitamin injections; the other 5 were placed on an isocaloric diet which provided 20 grams of protein.
Hypovolemia (and usually hypoalbuminemia) precedes the onset of metabolic toxemia of late pregnancy.
If you feel some degree of true toxemia exists, the most important thing is to provide the system with enough fluid and nutrients to try to make up for lost time.
www.midwiferytoday.com /enews/enews0138.asp   (3180 words)

  
 Pregnancy Today's Advisory Panel Answers: What is Toxemia and its effects?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The question you ask regarding toxemia is not a simple one, and it is beyond the scope of this framework to give you a complete answer.
In general: toxemia, preeclampsia, or pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) refers to a group of three or more symptoms experienced by the pregnant mother.
The signs and symptoms include: elevated blood pressure, swelling of face and extremities, and spilling of protein in the urine.
pregnancytoday.com /experts/m-toxemia.htm   (164 words)

  
 Birthsong Childbirth Education & Support Services - Toxemia
Birthsong Childbirth Education and Support Services - Toxemia
Preeclampsia, Toxemia, HELLP Syndrome: Prevent It and Stop It http://www.blueribbonbaby.org
Metabolic Toxemia of Late Pregnancy: A Disease of Malnutrition
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 Pregnancy Today - Definitions: Toxemia
Symptoms may include elevated maternal blood pressure, swelling of ankles and hands, sudden weight gain and protein in the urine.
What are the chances of getting toxemia again?
Ask the pregnancy health experts your questions here!
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